Nicky Hayden became the first team-mate to defeat Cꦰasey Stoner fair and square - when both riders have finished and without any serious🧸 technical problems - since 2007, at Jerez on Sunday.

But the American was disappointed that, although he repeated his fourth place finish from round one in Qatar, he dropped from less than two-seconds from victory at L☂osail to over nine seconds adrift in Spain.

"Fourth place is no d🉐isaster but I was hoping to stay closer to the top three towards the end and put up a bit of a fight," confirmed the Ducati Marlboro rider. "I'm not happy to be nine seconds adrift but we're trying to build so🔥mething here and we've had another solid weekend.

" The team, the bike, everything has been great this weekend but we just fell a couple of tenths short on race day. To be honest I thought we mig🔯ht find a little extra for the race, like we did in Qatar, but it wasn't to be.

"Like I said yesterday my guys worked like dogs to put me in this position today and we've got more to do to𒊎morrow so I want to give a big than♓ks to them.

"This is the Ducati facജtory team and we don't jump up and down at fourth place but we'll take it. We got some great data to work from that should help us be stronger at Le Mans and ho💝pefully we can keep this upward trend going."

Stoner finished on🧸e place𒈔 and one second behind Hayden.

Marco Melandri technically finished ahead of Stoner at Le Mans 2008, but the Australian had suffered a serious engine problem while battling for the lead an💫d was lapped twice.

Prior to that, Stoner's last defeat at the hands of a team-mate 🤪was when Loris Capirossi won the wet/dry 2007 Japanese Grand Prix, a race where Stoner finished a safe sixth to clinch the world championship.